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hi everyone have my visionary playlists. each has a runtime of about 1 hour and is intended to be listened to in order.

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you got your known Minoans and your unknown Minoans (part four)

(reposted, with edits, from Twitter)

(part one, part two, part three on Tumblr)

Where were we? Oh yeah, bagging on Arthur Evans, right?

(You’re going to want to read Parts 1-3, linked above, if you haven’t already or this won’t make much sense.)

Keep reading

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in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this

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Face the sunrise!

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not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

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Cw body horror, insects

Art dump (literally all of it is moira and two Nirans)

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Festering

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Switching teams - My Moira Mirrorwatch concept

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When it came to the OW1 voice lines, I get the Moicy feeling because it sounded like Moira still wanted to make peace/get along with Mercy and try her best to avoid harming her.

Mirrorverse Mercy, on the other hand, I feel, has no problem hurting Moira.

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Moicy, but it's Mirrorverse!

Moira's looks is based on @cryptcoop's lovely design!

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The new Mercy skin looks awfully familiar to an outfit someone else wore...

Moicy fans rejoice!

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gay married

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moicy coded screenshot redraw

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Birthday girl 🎂🎉🥳

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Imagine buying Overwatch: Declassified just so you can skim through it for snippets of Moira lore, hahahaha not me <3

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at office nap

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from the official overwatch declassified book:

COMPROMISED MORALS

while most of overwatch resumed business as usual, reyes went about the business of stabliziling and expanding blackwatch. it should be noted that, though there is very little consensus about this time period, the zurich archive supports the thinking that blackwatch and its operations were treated as strictly need-to-know and were not shared with the majority of agents or support staff. this is corroborated by testimonies that arose from UN hearings following the destruction of overwatch's swiss headquarters.

unable to persuade ziegler to accompany his team on any further missions, reyes turned his attention elsewhere. he came across a research paper released by an ambitious irish geneticist by the name of moira o'deorain, who had created custom genetic programs that could alter dna at a cellular level. the methodology shared some of the same root principles as the soldier enhancement program, while taking them in innovative — albeit morally questionable — new directions. reyes flagged her as worth watching and might have approached her immediately had a condemnation not been released by overwatch's medical research division before he had time to finish running her credentials.

o'deorain's work was seen as problematic, and other researchers were unable to replicate her results, even under the most tightly controlled conditions. what had seemed like a promise step forward was decried as unethical and shoddy science, and a discovery that should have launched her career damaged it severely instead. throughout all of this, ziegler was speaking out against o'deorain's research, while reyes was circling ever closer.

o'deorain was finally dismissed from the university of dublin after months of questions about the morality of her research, having been declared far too great a liability to remain on staff. she attempted to enter the private sector, only to find that her name was poison. no one was willing to employ her — at least, no one reputable — until she received a job offer from none other than gabriel reyes.

she was suspicious of this, as overwatch had been so publicly opposed to her research, but she was willing to hear him out. she was charmed by his promises of resources, support, and laboratory staff (besides being able to rub her research in the face of those who had fought so hard to destroy her career). o'deorain began her tenure as blackwatch's head of medical research — and chief field medic — almost immediately.

compared with the more recent high-profile recruits to overwatch (winston, oxton), o'deorain had been recruited to blackwatch under a veil of absolute secrecy. if blackwatch was the organization's dirty little secret, she was theirs. unlike other blackwatch agents, she would not be openly associated with the primary organization.

little is known/has been declassified regarding o'deorain's time with blackwatch. it was tempting to omit her entirely from this record, as so much of what we do know is wedded to conjecture. in the eyes of the research team, her involvement in the venice incident makes her a key component of this record.

a review of the zurich archive makes it clear that o'deorain's loyalty to blackwatch (if she ever had any) did not last long. following the venice incident, ziegler refused to absorb o'deorain into her medical staff. the controversy was ultimately to her benefit, as it gained the attention of the scientific minds behind oasis. after overwatch, they installed o'deorain there as minister of genetics, with the promise of funding for her work.